I know the writer/creator of widows bay is on tumblr and its so funny that they saw everyone enthusiastically going "we like our men wet and pathetic (and psychologically and literally tortured)" and went
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I know the writer/creator of widows bay is on tumblr and its so funny that they saw everyone enthusiastically going "we like our men wet and pathetic (and psychologically and literally tortured)" and went
I Got You
incredibly funny implication that the hive says it feels so wonderful to be part of it is bc the virus is keeping them super happy high all the time
also if its inducing overloads of those chemicals its causing hyper-empathy and thats why it has a freak out any time an individual gets mad at it
the virus has overloaded the human biological self-preservation needs with happy chemicals and left only its own drive for virus propagation
fucking cordyceps type of shit but its a virus not a fungus
seen a couple posts calling others out for saying marius is mean and now thar I have started avowed I can say: hes fucking tsundere
I dont believe they would make simon that sexy just to die in a fiery explosion #doubt
'feral'... I think the descriptor 'rabid' would be more apt for super aggressive monsters
not quite there yet main quest wise but the clarice/hound relationship is so fucking funny
"yeah she beat the shit out of me so I possessed her with my resentment and now I follow her around as her dog"
vs
"I vanquished a violent lightning wolf god that commited massacres after he killed my family and I'm still full of vengeance. some weird guy who calls himself the Hound with lightning powers showed up shortly after and decided he wanted to be my dog. there is no connection"
see its not about the human species surviving its about the virus surviving
biological imperiative for the virus not the bodies. once it assimilates everyone and sends out their next coded virus message to the next planet who's to say they wont just lay down and die en mass
everyone on earth has joined. success! send out the next batch. restart the process, forget about the past, only the future awaits
calling it the hivemind is a bit misnomer because while it does have the collective knowledge of everyone living, it is not everyones input together but one driving force with billions of peripherals
that is why it does not care about the animals or plants. they do not propagate the virus. everything will be a slow, controlled descent into extinction
its an omni-benevolent world-ending disaster
also what happened to the original rat. it cant assimilate animals but why did the rat know to play dead and bite
there are.. SO MANY fucking bears in the first area of avowed
like the second boss fight is a bear